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(Q6) A lot of people are going to be surprised that government actually wants to regulate tech, and not just because of a “techlash”—there are real concerns in safety, AI, security, etc., not just social media.

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A6 - Twitter achieves profitability by converting SF HQ into luxury condo tower.

A6 Innovation is slowing down! Tech that helps us to innovate faster together & bring that connectivity back without being physically present.

A6: (1/2) ChatGPT is going to do a lot of our coding for us. Spoke with a peer in the industry today who was using it to generate ELT scripts - notoriously tricky to hand-code - #eWEEKChat

A6: (2/2) and was having considerable success. A lot of coding has become mechanical, and AI will let us software developers focus on the creative parts rather than writing yet another React control. #eWEEKChat

A6. The BEA will not call a recession during 2023. Inflation rate in the U.S. is 4.5% at end of year. You heard it here first.

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@luis_in_brief But will gov succeed in regulating tech? Seems like a long shot.

A6: Investments in Metaverse will create new and unexpected breakthroughs in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR). Actual metaverse usage will largely remain in the realm of gaming, but AR and VR are far more broadly applicable. #eWEEKChat

@JamesMaguire Oh, absolutely. EU just moved on some of their AI regulation this morning, and they’ll move on product liability for software next year. As we learned from GDPR, what happens in Brussels spreads.

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A6. In networking I think the big surprise will be the rapidly growing adoption of #WiFi6E enabled devices & network infrastructure. Get ready! It’s quickly going from a US-centric story to a world-wide movement

@Benaroni It's been recorded! :)

A6: Organizations will continue to be surprised with how easy it is to #innovate when they can #automate mundane tasks and free up employee time to focus on more transformative projects

A6: A few years ago, Kubernetes felt like a savior. In 2023, the drawbacks and complexity of #k8s will start showing their effects in terms of usage. Lots of customers are foregoing k8s adoption and I expect to see this trend continue.

@RamChakravarti2 YES, with just a little bit of prep and implementation effort, the returns on Automation are huge.

A6: Year of meaningful headway in two areas that have been tougher for tech adoption - healthcare and education.

A6: maybe recency bias, but Chatbots are going to be the new buzzword but the imagination of what is possible will blow our minds in the coming year

(This is why I filed it under surprises, by the way—we’re very used to DC and Brussels being mostly hands-off and/or incompetent, and that’s changing but the industry hasn’t internalized that yet.)

@petermattis There's so much to like but maybe over hyped.

I'm just going to wish all the bad predictions away. . .

A6. I expect we’ll see more progress in “touchless” technology. It could be a breakthrough wearable product beyond a smart watch, or an automated restaurant drive through. Voice AI interaction is now strong enough to be the primary interface for these types of products.

A6: A minimaly invasive mixed reality headset is created, and companies that play in this space explode! I've always thought mixed reality is a much more inviting experience with greater application than pure VR, but not if you look like robocop

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@luis_in_brief Hopefully not too much regulation. Hard to belive whats in someones best interest anymore...

@BrandonGleklen Seems like education is more of a laggard than healthcare.

A6: Google exits the cloud business. GCP isn't keeping up with technology advances and Azure and AWS are just too dominant - hard for Google to make money.

@brucekornfeld Contrarian!

@brucekornfeld I could totally see this!

@hollandcbarry Best Answer on Q6!

@datanerdjake Great example of what I meant by AR/VR gains powered by metaverse investment.

@datanerdjake I can't see it :)

@rjworobel do not like chatbots, but maybe I'm in the minority

A6: Maybe not a surprise to some, but expecting 2023 to be a year of major medical breakthroughs with regards to fighting infectious disease and cancer as much of the research gains made vs COVID get applied to other areas.

@RamChakravarti2 Beyond automating mundane tasks, #ManagedServices offload non-core business value activities to external expertise, freeing up time to focus on their core competencies.

@Trentf_CA Well, “too much” is in the eye of the beholder. Hard to argue we’ve been over-regulated so far.

agree - but I think the healthcare cloud ecosystem starts to mirror the fintech ecosystem, primarily driven be advancements in foundational layer data interoperability.

@BrandonGleklen Makes sense.

@justinemerson Maybe ML fighting cancer?

@Trentf_CA I think there is a lot to be worried about, but that doesn't mean there will not be some amazing things as well

@Mizago Amongst many other advancements! But yes ML in healthcare is huge both for diagnostics and treatment development.

@brucekornfeld Google exiting the cloud business is certainly possible given their track record, but I've seen their investment up close and doubt that is going to happen.

Quantum computers are going to have actual impact earlier than expected. 2023 will continue to show breakthroughs and milestones, and we will come up with new ideas for practical applications in the near future.

A6: AI is making some pretty remarkable strides forward, but it still won't be ready for mainstream use. In other words...we still need humans to do the work - AI is great to break writers block tho!

A6: The legal industry, industry associations, governments, and security companies will begin to modulate emerging AI.

@rjworobel A6: I agree. We already see the seamless blending of AI-based and human chat as a best practice. In 2023 this will become the norm, and the line between the two will continue to blur. As the AI experience becomes better, we will cease to care about this distinction.

@mih_steven We will still need humans, but AI can jump in and make them more efficient through recommendations, anticipating their reactions, and completely taking over simple tasks. We are well on our way to human/machine hybrid work product as normal and accepted output.

A5: The cloud may have reached the peak of its growth. Many organizations are realizing that the "ease" of cloud is often dwarfed by the costs as well as performance and reliability issues.

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Good point. @hpe did quite well last qtr

although companies seem to be less worried about cloud costs than the cost of people, so cloud is not going anywhere IMO

A5: (1/2) Might be a view informed by @Sisense ’s own market, but I expect to see significant slowdowns in the traditional BI and analytics sector - anyone still using desktop BI as their only view of data? #eWEEKChat

A5. I think we’ll see continued pressure on social media platforms. With increased scrutiny on user data and privacy, these platforms will need to grow beyond their legacy business.

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A5: (2/2) While it’s certainly not going away, I don’t expect much growth there; demand is shifting to embedded analytics and to in-context data workflows. #eWEEKChat

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A5: With more companies going back to work, collaboration companies will probably see a further decline in growth. On the up side, meal deliveries will probably be up! 😊

A5. Sorry to repurpose a previous answer, but I think the use of NFT’s and Blockchain in applications that provide defined utility will be a new movement (thanks to crypto skepticism). Think NFT’s for legal documents, as an example

A5 – Other than crypto? The entire sector likely to see contraction with budgets slashed, or static at best.

A5. Crypto is still murmuring some signs of life as we end 2022. But there is still further for it to fall. And it will.

A5: Hard to imagined but 2023 could be the year that the hyperscalers lose some momentum. The rush towards digital transformation during the pandemic is colliding with a rapidly growing spend and lock in. CFOs will take back control over cloud spend. #eWEEKChat

A5: ""Perk Point Solutions" - any tool seeing low utilization that provides questionably measurable value to a small group of people. Which can unfortunately describe a lot of cloud spend!

@JamesMaguireA5: Technology that is solving just one use case will see the greatest loss. Focus on platforms instead of technology that solves just features.

(A5) Ironically, I think it’ll be AI—lots of low-hanging fruit got picked this year, and both government and the tech labor force will be more skeptical. But slowing down from “literally unbelievable” to “merely extremely fast paced” will still be a lot to process!

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A5: Staying on the topic of #automation – automation for automation sake will go away in 2023. Tech has matured and it’s become clear that your technology solutions need to provide true business value and the days of looking at technology in a silo will be behind us

A5: We're all familiar with services that make it so easy to add subscriptions (with auto-renewal), and many of us have subscriptions that we no longer use and have forgotten about. Well, cloud is like that. #eWEEKChat

@datanerdjake I've been skeptical of NFTs and blockchain ~forever. Interesting technology that has been unable to find a truly compelling use case.

A5. There’s always crypto? 8-) In all seriousness, with SD-WAN seeing 200% y/y growth, anyone living off MPLS hardware & services may have a challenge

@datanerdjake Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

@Mizago Perhaps increased societal pressure on (ie, against) social media platforms as well.

A5: Similar to what I shared earlier around open source managed services having a big 2023, we think the open source SaaS market will see a loss of momentum as companies will want control of their own data and apps.

A5: ML for the sake of ML. I think we see much harder requirements to justify these types of applications and jobs. This could also be said for just about any role in tech

@Benaroni Great point. I think future generations will look back on unregulated social media with wonder.

A5: UCCaaS. Companies are finding better ways to communicate. That is an industry destined for consolidation

@mizago Social media platforms will continue to lose their luster.

@hollandcbarry By which we mean cryptocurrency, of course. Actual crypto, which is to say cryptography, is booming and set to continue doing so.

@justinemerson Do mean companies like @zoom or others?

@Mizago Likewise, I've always hoped that future generations will look back on the era of gasoline and wonder.

@RobertBlumofe agreed! That's the way the best products are made, right?!?!?!

@RobertBlumofe - Yes! Thankfully happening before our eyes.

The explosive growth in videoconferencing and similar collaborative tools is over for now, and there will be slight contraction as we return at least part time to the office.

@TimCallan Agreed!

A5: The metaverse. If it's accepted, it's a long-term play.